#peak

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#beautiful people #difficult #hard #how #like

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#between #secrecy #speak #stadium #thus

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#causing #end #himself #his #his way

My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future. ↗

— Robert. L. Ehrlich

#bay #budget #build #capital #chesapeake

Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#america #attack #attacked #britain #civilized

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#banal #banality #before #carefully #danger

Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#authentic #blunt #brash #christie #governor

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name. ↗

— Marie de France

#five #glibly #his #hundred #letter

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. ↗

— Al Franken

#christian #christian right #culture #extreme #extreme poverty

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens. ↗

— David Frum

#biggest #event #everybody #great #great power